Empowerment of Women Street Food Vendors in Puducherry UT Puducherry and Karaikal

Abstract: Women's backwardness is causing plenty of social and economic issues. The low status of women is the result of ignorance, lack of education, their distance from changing society and the changes that are taking place, their subordinate position, reluctance to achieve, and so on. Empowerment of women is critical to the development of people and society. Women's empowerment has become as a critical topic in recent years. Women's economic empowerment is now recognised as a precondition for a country's progress; thus, the topic of economic empowerment of women is of paramount concern to political thinkers, social scientists and reformers, women activists, legislators, academicians, and administrators. Women's empowerment has been at the heart of the evolution of women's movements. Because of their harsh and exploitative circumstances, women adopt the concept of empowerment to bring about change for themselves. The actions in the empowerment process assist them in gaining power, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Giving women a power basis, a platform, to confront their disempowerment, having more control over their lives, and being able to influence others, is what empowerment entails. This study focuses on challenges, problems and opportunities which women face during their street food vending at Puducherry and Karaiakal (UT). The research objective for this study comprises of exploration and description. The exploratory research enables the researcher to gain insight into the research topic, to clarify central concepts and constructs and to develop methods, which must be employed in the study. The descriptive research allows the researcher to measure and report the occurrence with which specific variables occur in the sample to present an image of the facts of a condition or relationship. Keywords: Women Empowerment, Street Food Vendors, Economic and Social Factors